Meaning & use
galleon
A large, multi-decked sailing ship used mainly from the 15th to 18th centuries for trade and warfare.
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Spanish galleons once carried enormous amounts of silver across the Atlantic Ocean.
Divers discovered the wreck of a sunken galleon off the Florida coast.
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Galleons were used both as armed warships and as cargo vessels, especially by Spain during its colonial empire.
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